There’s nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
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I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
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For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
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The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It’s a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
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When somebody says something I don’t agree with, I say I’d rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, “no”. And that is the one word we have in common.
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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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I’m a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I’d love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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I am the nice adversary, the guy that’s going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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I’m a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It’s a change in me.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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I had gotten to the point where I just didn’t want to perform anymore – I didn’t want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.
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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don’t see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
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You can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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